No matter how many articles you read about the benefits of exercise, cardio and breaking a sweat, you just can’t get motivated to exercise. Luckily for you, you can still burn calories without a gym membership. What’s more, they’re actually enjoyable activities, which is more than you can say for crunches, push ups and burpees. Read on to find out 3 best ways to slim down everyday without even trying to exercise.

If dancing is how you get your social fix on the weekends, then you’re in luck. Depending on how long and how hard you dance, you can burn up to 600 calories. What’s more, when you move more, your appetite goes down, helping you to cut back on mindless, junk-food snacking.

While love making has many things going for it, let’s not forget that a little love can whittle away at your love handles. In fact, 30 minutes of sex can equate to burning around 160 calories. And it goes without saying, that the longer the session, the more calories you can potentially burn. Who knew you were so good at multi-tasking?

If you live a sedentary lifestyle and spend most of your working hours in front of a desk, you could transform your weight loss goals by making one minor, yet life changing switch. Try standing rather than sitting. According to exercise physiologist, Mira Rasmussen, if you stand rather than sit, you could potentially burn twice as many calories per minute.

Getting the body you want is a work in progress and the sum of many factors. Why not tap into these daily activities to lose weight and slim down effortlessly?

Do you want to learn faster? Perhaps you’re a student, or work in a fast-paced environment that places many demands on your mind. Either way, being able to learn information faster is a great skill to have no matter who you are, or what you do. And thanks to new research, one way to learn faster might just be running faster.

Do you ever eat to make yourself better – especially when you feel stressed or unhappy? Emotional eating is pretty common, and it’s safe to say that most of us have tapped into the comforting effects of food from time to time. But if emotional eating is the only way to cope with stress and negative emotions, it can become an unhealthy pattern that’s hard to break. But there are gentle ways to overcome this habit.